Girl walks out of a bar
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Lisa Smith
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781590793213
Subjects: Patients; Health; Recovering alcoholics; Recovering addicts; Biography; Substance abuse
Description: Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city's clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.--Amazon.com